Re: [ROOT] R__unzip: Error and rootd question

From: Andre Holzner (Andre.Holzner@cern.ch)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 10:25:20 MEST


schulte@pktw08.phy.tu-dresden.de wrote:
> 
> hello,
> 
> a question to all rooters and network gurus,
> 
> i create a root file on an AIX machine (4.3, xlC) and ship the
> root file to a linux (suse6.4) via nfs. when i then re-read this file on the
> linux side, i often get a non deterministic error :
> 
>  ------ Event:137259
> 
>  ------ Event:137260
> 
>  ------ Event:137261
>  R__unzip: discrepancy with initial size
>  Error in <TBasket::ReadBasketBuffers>: fObjlen = 112932, nout = 0
> 
>  if you re-run the program it occures that the error massage is at a different
>  event. some files work some don't.
> 
>  after a lot of frustration and agony (5 days) i found, that this is (probably)
>  a network problem. shipping the file via nfs from aix to linux does not work.
>  cp'ing it to linux (siting on the linux machine) works if i correctly mount the
>  system (mount -t nfs 11.11.11.11:/from /to). ftp seems to work always. so somehow
>  i have the feeling that the linux-dir is not mounted correctly on the aix.
>  can anybody help?

This probably doesn't help you out of your problem: We saw strange
effects
when WRITING from a Linux machine (also around Suse 6.4, don't remember
which
Kernel, libc and nfsd versions) onto an nfs mounted disk exported by
an AIX (4.3.x) computer. We came across it when we recompiled
programs known to work and then tried to run them. We got SIGSEGVs.
When telling the compiler to write the executable into /tmp (on the
local
Linux machine), the program ran without problem. Comparing the two
different executables (I remember that they had the same size), showed
that 'somebody' inserted 0 zero bytes after 8192 bytes and similar
things.
(The effect was reproducible).

However, your case seems to be in the opposite direction (for 
which I remember that we never saw problems).


best regards,

André



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